Welsh councils look set to avoid European Union financial penalties for sending waste to landfill after achieving their targets a year early, according to the Environment Agency
Public sector bodies have been urged to look at the lifetime cost of projects after a report criticised a ‘large inefficiency’ in spending caused by waste of resources
The Rural Services Network has given details of its manifesto for next year’s general election in an effort to keep countryside issues high on the political agenda
A single Whitehall department has run up a bill of more than £570m - more than a fifth of its resource budget - on consultants, temporary staff and professional services in just one year
England’s rivers, lakes and canals are to get a facelift through new government funding. Environment minister Huw Irranca-Davies said an extra £10m would be invested over the next year in improving...
A simpler and more open system — or a way for ministers to bulldoze through favoured projects? The Planning Act, and particularly the creation of a new quango as final arbiter, has provoked uproar
A groundbreaking deal to supply electricity to the entire public sector in Scotland was set to be announced by Finance Secretary John Swinney on April 30
Two councils could bypass the Private Finance Initiative to build a multimillion-pound waste treatment facility after PFI schemes elsewhere have been bogged down by financing problems
Sustainable development will be the ‘central organising principle’ for the Welsh Assembly Government and public sector in Wales, the first minister has said